What I got at a garage sale today.

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Here's what I got at a garage sale today, just after complaining that fabric and sewing notions were getting too expensive...making it cheaper just to buy a finished garment than make it yourself...

A giant bag of assorted yards and yards of all different fabrics, tons of zippers, thread, buttons, pins and needles, trims and laces... and I mean a GIANT bag...for $1.00!! Now I can be a dress sewing fool all summer for nuttin!

$1.00...bwhahahahaha!

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), March 25, 2000

Answers

Didn't they have any fishing tackle at that sale?!!

-- gene (ekbaker@essex1.com), March 26, 2000.

Gene, they did!! In fact, 99% of the garage sales that I go to around here have fishing tackle and stuff like that. Come on down!!

Todays find, a flour sifter, for .10c!

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), March 26, 2000.


My all time find at a garage sale is my complete, service for 12 (in perfect, pristine condition) Haviland Limoge china...

...it was the end of one of my 'scavenging' days, and I was on my way home. My car is programmed to automatically seek out must stop locations, and I found myself in front of an older home in a well established neighborhood...the people holding the sale were in the process of packing everything that was left back into boxes. Not a lot was left...but enough that I wanted to look around.

My eyes spied several boxes marked "White and Gold dishes"...I opened them, and inside was the most beautiful set of china...obviously very seldom used, as the gold trim was intact...all wrapped in newspapers dating back 30 years...

I checked my money...down to my last $20, and I was in desperate need of gasoline to get home...I asked what they wanted, not really wanting to hear; I knew it would be way more than what I had...

"...Well, we're getting ready to pack everything up and go home...how does ten bucks for everything sound? Sure had a lot of people look at them, but they're still here..."

Not for long, they weren't... [G]

-- Brooke (WilferdW@aol.com), March 26, 2000.


kritter,

I'm green with envy... Now why can't I find a yard sale like that? :)

Sheeple

-- (Sheeple@Greener.Pastures), March 27, 2000.


Heck, I wanna find the garage sale that Brooke was at!!

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), March 27, 2000.


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